[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14330-14331]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            GOP DYSFUNCTION

  (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

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  Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my Republican 
colleagues to please don't shut down the government. Let's work 
together. Let's put politics aside and do what is best for the American 
people.
  By the end of this month, we are expected to negotiate a responsible 
budget agreement, but threats from the rightwing extremists are taking 
us off course once again.
  I recently wrote an op-ed challenging Republican threats to women's 
healthcare coverage, as I refuse to stand on the sidelines when our 
country's daughters, sisters, and mothers are under attack.
  Instead of, once again, holding women's health care hostage in order 
to pass a biased agenda, we need to come together to pass a 
responsible, bipartisan budget to address our Nation's most pressing 
problems.
  Now, residents in the Dallas/Fort Worth area are concerned about 
getting some congestion off of our freeways and doing things like 
making sure that the American public has good, well-paying jobs and 
protecting our businesses.
  They want us to pass a balanced and responsible budget that averts 
another government shutdown. We cannot expect to repeat the same 
mistakes and think that it is going to yield different results.
  The American people are counting on us to focus on what matters: 
jobs, education, and fixing our country's crumbling infrastructure.

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